Education
Seattle's School System Has Begun Dismantling Its Gifted Programs
Parents should be able to respond to this blunt dismissal of their children's needs by taking their business elsewhere.
New York Bans Gatherings of 500 People Unless They Are Children Penned in Enclosed Spaces
Scientists, teachers, and parents are asking: Why is one of the most coronavirus-impacted cities keeping its schools open "at all cost"?
School Canceled Because of Coronavirus? A Homeschooler Offers Some Tips
If you try homeschooling, you may discover that it's not just a good way to keep COVID-19 at bay, but a good educational approach and fit for your family more generally.
ICE Scam Leads to Student Deportations
The latest sting went to elaborate lengths to target students themselves instead of illicit pay-to-stay visa mills.
Why Are Public Schools Fighting To Keep Home School Kids Off Their Teams?
In West Virginia, advocates have been fighting to pass the Tim Tebow Act since 2011. They're on the verge of scoring a partial legislative victory.
Students Demand Censorship of 'Coronavirus' Theme Party
They call it a "hate crime against Asian students and scholars."
Bloomberg Supports Charter Schools, Deeply Vexes Sanders and Warren
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders correctly diagnose the problem, but fail to provide an adequate solution.
Video: Orlando Cops Arrest Crying 6-Year-Old Girl
One of the officers was fired after arresting two 6-year-olds in one day.
AOC Admits She Got Her Goddaughter Into a Bronx Charter School
The democratic socialist congresswoman has lamented that the public-school system hinges on zip codes.
Ohio University's Radical Students Could Have Ignored Kaitlin Bennett. Instead, They Threw Liquids At Her.
The mob strategy is morally and practically flawed.
Arkansas School Resource Officer Suspended After Video Showed Him Choking Student
The incident is just the latest in a string of excessive force incidents involving school resource officers around the country.
School Calls Cops on 6-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Who Made Finger Gun Gesture
The little girl said, "I shoot you," but her mother says she didn't understand what she was saying.
Georgia Can't Compel School Speakers To Promise They Won't Boycott Israel, Argues New Federal Lawsuit
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President Trump, Betsy DeVos Want To Reduce the Education Department's Size and Power
It's a solid budget proposal—too bad it won't go anywhere.
Trump: 'No Parent Should Be Forced To Send Their Child to a Failing Government School'
In his State of the Union address, the president promised to give an opportunity scholarship to a specific child who needed one.
Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity
The university's litmus test is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Elizabeth Warren Is a Teachers Union Pet
Despite costing less to educate, Boston's charter students significantly outperform their peers in both reading and math. So why is Warren still opposed?
Emory Students Formed a Literal Safe Space To Feel Protected from Heather Mac Donald's Words
One member of the student government argued the conservative speaker's presence was inherently discriminatory.
Bureaucrats Are Trying to 'Control' School Choice
Administrators are squeezing out charters in the name of desegregation. The results: Parents are upset, enrollment is declining, and the schools are no more integrated than before.
Biased Textbooks Are Just Part of the Public School Curriculum Wars
To reduce conflict over classroom lessons, let people choose their kids’ education.
School Choice Opponents Need To Stop Gaslighting Parents
Education activist Andrew Campanella on the moral perversity of school-choice critics.
Watch Elizabeth Warren Lie About Her Son's Private School Education
Political hypocrisy on school choice needs to be exposed, says Reason Foundation's Corey DeAngelis.
Ban Facial Recognition on College Campuses, Activists Say
"Facial recognition represents a dystopic advancement of the police state."
Whatever Happened to the Classroom of the Future?
Clayton Christensen, father of the theory of "disruptive innovation," predicted that half of high school classes would be delivered online by 2018. What went wrong?
Sibling Grammy Winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell Praise Homeschooling
"I've never been to school. I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled."
Public Schools Are Teaching The 1619 Project in Class, Despite Concerns From Historians
"Mandating the use of The 1619 Project in K-12 curricula is at best premature until these issues are resolved."
We Chose Our Child's School. More Parents Should Be Given That Choice for Their Kids
It’s good to be able to pick an education that suits your kid instead of one crafted by bureaucrats.
Seattle's School System Wants to Dismantle Its Gifted Programs. This Is Why School Choice Matters.
When educators don't see their parents and students as customers, they make some really stupid decisions.
Pennsylvania Bill Would Toss 35,000 Kids Out of Their Cyber Charter Schools
"They're trying to force us to put our children in the district school," says Stefaine D’Amico, whose three kids attend online classes that could be abolished. "That's not fair."
Yale Will Eliminate a Beloved Introductory Art Class for Being Too White, Male, and Western
"It's a disservice to undergrads," said one student.
The Story Behind Miss Virginia Exemplifies The Moral Case for School Choice
As a black child growing up in Arkansas, Virginia Walden Ford fought her way into segregated schools. As an adult, she fought to get her son out of failing public schools.
The Montana Blaine Amendment Case and the Need for a Consistent Approach to Discrimination on the Basis of Religion
Conservatives want courts to consider the governments' bigoted motives in enacting anti-Catholic Blaine amendments, but not when it comes to Trump's travel ban. Liberals tend to be inconsistent in the opposite way.
4 Key Republican Senators To Watch as Trump's Trial Rolls Into the Weekend
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The Supreme Court Weighs School Choice and Religious Liberty
What’s at stake in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
Families Ask the Supreme Court to Stop Discrimination Against Religious Schools
Kendra Espinoza's daughters rely on a state-supported scholarship program to attend the school of their choice.
Judge Temporarily Blocks Potential Eviction of UConn Students in the "Racial Ridicule" Case
"On the record before the Court, the movants have demonstrated 'sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation.'"
First Amendment Argument in the UConn "Racial Ridicule" Case
This is the case where two students were shouting "nigger" loudly when walking by UConn dorms; the students are trying to block university discipline based on their speech, including their eviction from student housing.